Open-ended questions such as these show that we're curious about our friends' lives and can help transform chitchat into deeper dialogues.
(Rachel Saltz) 'THREE TRAVELERS' This lightweight comedy by Richard Abrons, in which three Westerners seek out a guru in India who, with an hour's chitchat, changes their lives, has some decent gags in it.
There was the usual chitchat -- the 12 members, all women, live in the same condominium complex in Bedford, Mass.
This is not ephemeral chitchat, but language used to summarise whole lives, chiselled into stone for the ages.
If nothing can be done, then it seems better to just live our lives as we always have: networking, hobnobbing, chitchatting until the sun goes black and the birds start to fall out of the sky.
"We get there, we chitchat, we fill each other in on our lives".
"Knickerbocker," named after the restaurant near Union Square where the play takes place, is a stage throwback to sitcoms from the 1990s like "Seinfeld" and "Friends," in which best pals and assorted girlfriends sat around coffee shops trading self-conscious, quirky chitchat about the passing scene, the meandering courses of their lives and other randomly assorted stuff.
That morning chitchat included discussion of survivors guilt and the realization that the folks who live next door could not access the same rights, due simply to their not rushing to the altar, or to a City Hall, before November's vote.
Trew Musings sees that in action: it's a mix of readings, pontifications and interactive chitchat, all designed to throw a little bit of light on the chaos we live in.
Around lunchtime, two dispatchers were prominent, a woman who went by Danlee, and who said she lived in New Jersey, and another who called herself Mimi, who did not have time for chitchat.
